September 30, 2003
reality - absent the TV
We New Yorkers have been saying, "not in our name," for over two years. After completing a study begun only a week after the 9/11 attacks, psychoanalyst and historian Charles B. Strozier, the Director of the Center on Terrorism and...
this is the America everbody loves
Boubacar Diallo came to New York three years ago, speaking only french and Fulani. Today he appears on Newsday's Profile page.Second-year student in LaGuardia Community College's computer science program; an officer in the college's Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, he...
the silence of the media
Some of our friends seem to think that the story about the White House betrayal of a CIA operative just broke in the media. There must be many more so mistaken, so take a look at this post in early...
September 29, 2003
treason as capitol [sic, maybe] offense
Off with their heads! Yeah, sure, Ashcroft's going to get right on it. But actually, is this Bush's Watergate burglary? Are the highest members of the adminstration involved in betraying a C.I.A. agent, endangering her and her colleagues and consequently...
September 28, 2003
September 27, 2003
September 26, 2003
Edward Said
Edward Said died today. "Every empire... tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate. These ideas are by no means shared by...
September 25, 2003
post-gothic tower
Grace Church, lower Broadway, this week Wait, could it . . . uh, is it, uh, the French flag?...
a most incurious man
Especially welcome on this laptop after my experience Tuesday near the UN, today's strong lead NYTimes editorial talks about free speech zones - and much more. The Presidential Bubble Four progressive political groups sued the Bush administration this week, charging...
September 24, 2003
designated free speech area
View of the UN from 47th Street and 1st Avenue on Tuesday Only about two dozen people found their way to the designated free speech zone a block from the United Nations yesterday. From where we stood we had...
September 23, 2003
"heckler" confronts Wolfowitz, Goldberg
Following up: This is the photo and caption which appeared in the NYTimes print edition on Monday. Fortunately I appear only in silhouette. We should all have been so fortunate with Wolfowitz and Goldberg as well. [image scanned by...
September 22, 2003
Wolfowitz's children
And these are only the Americans. [image from "Counting the Body Bags" on nyc indymedia center]...
Joe Ovelman's wall
Joe Ovelman's latest guerilla art installation, created September 13th, was a wall on 10th Avenue made magical when papered with his photographs. Go to this gallery for many of the images. Nothing remains at the site. For more on...
Joe Ovelman's unwall
Even more ephemeral than 10th Avenue! Go to this gallery for images of the 25th Street wall after Joe [mostly] complied with the request that he remove his photographs that same morning....
"the now-infamous Wolfowitz riots"
You could consult this morning's NYTimes for a report on Paul Wolfowitz's appearance yesterday at the New School. If you have the print edition, you would see an image of me holding my unfolded sign while I stood in front...
September 21, 2003
the site's been upgraded
As you have probably noticed by now, something new is going on with this site. Barry has upgraded me, moving it from b2 to Movable Type. Yea! For you readers or picture gazers it means quicker response with internal links...
how can they be so, well, stupid?
they didn't want her to stay I didn't want to be there. They made me go. That is, the clearly perverse creators of the New Yorker Festival made an offer I could not refuse. The New School, storied for...
September 20, 2003
Union Square hackey sack, and revolution
Not remarkable, probably not a statement, but interesting that these four sturdy guys were playing hackey sack in Union Square this afternoon almost in the midst of the inflammatory signs and very verbal tirades of a number of energetic...
are we outraged yet?
Does freedom of speech mean that distinguished institutions of higher education are required to invite nuts and war criminals in order to support a commercially-organized event described as New Yorker magazine's "three-day cultural fest, celebrating the finest in the arts,...
about home, being there, and getting there
Francois Our quite wonderful new friends from Bordeaux, Francois and Nicolas, left for home Wednesday night, and we missed them immediately. They are smart. They are artists. They are charming. They are interested in everything about this city and...
September 19, 2003
Al Franken is a big fat success in New York
Al Franken at Borders Books this afternoon So I wandered downtown to Wall Street again this morning. This time the attraction was the possibility of encountering and photographing bankers and brokers screaming as Al Franken entered their neighborhood Borders...
Dalai Lama: war may be good, but gay definitely bad
Phew! I'm relieved, both as an atheist and as a small-"d" democrat, to find that the Tibetan political and religious leader, the Dalai Lama, has feet of clay. Lama now says that the Iraq war may be justified, and has...
September 18, 2003
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September 16, 2003
September 15, 2003
more than just another Saturday in Chelsea
The fabulous Wau Wau Sisters and our friend Nicolas at The Kitchen's Fifth Annual Street Fair on Saturday afternoon Artist Nancy Hwang hanging out, also at The Kitchen Fair, with her interactive deliciously-moving, dumb-waitered, gelato-eating installation, "I Scream" Joe...
September 14, 2003
September 13, 2003
Joe Ovelman's very public walls
Joe Ovelman, car 2001, 40 x 30" color photograph [the following text is from Joe's press release] Joe Ovelman "Two Walls" Appearing Saturday, September 13th at the following locations: 10th Avenue, between 23rd and 24th Streets (Next to Car...
September 12, 2003
que sera, Serra
11th Avenue, 6 pm, September 12 Is it also site-specific work when a sculptor who insists upon the primacy of the artist's will creates work one or two inches smaller than his gallery's freight entrance - but definitely no...
Reza's reception
Reza in Battery Park on September 11 I had wanted to stay away from downtown New York altogether during yesterday's celebrations of grief, but the mid-day arrival in Battery Park of my sorta pen-pal and a real hero, Reza,...
a very good day after all
Nicolas When I left the little group with Reza yesterday afternoon I wasn’t quite ready to go home while these thoughts wandered around in my head, so I walked through Battery Park and headed toward Battery Park City by...
my September 12th post
I had to skip yesterday; just couldn't take the scenes. Here's why: As a nation, we’re swimming in self-pity, we’re shaking in fear, and we’re reveling in revenge. But were being really, really stupid. Pity, fear and revenge do not...
September 11, 2003
Reza Baluchi in Manhattan at last
Reza in Shawnee, Oklahoma, earlier this year Reza will finally be running down Broadway from the George Washington Bridge this morning, September 11. He will end up in Battery Park, instead of the World Trade Center, the destination he...
September 10, 2003
Ashcroft: no time for questions
The United States Bill of Rights While assembling his coffee this morning after spotting the day's headlines, the Barry asked, "So which is it?" Are they saying we're safe against terrorists under the firm and mighty hand of Bushie,...
coincidentally vegan
Two nights ago we enjoyed a vegan meal - at home. Of course there was wine, a Nebbiolo D'Alba. I know, it doesn't sound like our table, but I assure friends that it was a coincidence, if not an accident....
Cheney's horse and my wishes
I would like to believe that wishing makes it so, but Dick Cheney’s dis-invitation to the ceremonies marking the second anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster, as reported on NPR this morning, wasn’t my doing. The official excuse was...
September 9, 2003
Bronx cheers for Ashcroft
New York patriot: and nobody's stooge Go here for a gallery of images from today's demonstration at Federal Hall. Years ago most of us would not have thought we’d ever find ourselves in a police barricade pen next to...
September 8, 2003
Harvey Milk HS II: Milkies, you go!
For more images, from this morning, go here. We returned to Astor Place just before 3 this afternoon, to help the kids as they left school – should they need it. They didn’t, and it was both because the...
Reza across the Hudson
Reza in North Carolina, in the rain Reza is in Newark today, and will be crossing the George Washington Bridge Thursday morning before running down the island to the World Trade Center site - where he has been told...
Harvey Milk HS I: to cheer the baby queers
the crowd on Astor Place, entertained by Phelps christianists For more images, go here. Barry and I joined hundreds of others outside Harvey Milk High School this morning to cheer students entering the building for the first day of...
report card, two years after
It's all laid out here, in a compact piece from the Toronto Star, via Common Dreams, by the paper's own Haroon Siddiqui....
September 7, 2003
it's fall - [art] schools's back!
Danica Phelps We stopped by the LFL opening on Friday, but could only stay briefly, in spite of my heads-up broadcasted earlier in the week. We had to be in Brooklyn at about the same time, but we'll be...
September 6, 2003
Reza's in New Jersey
Yea! I was just about to write to Reza's travelling companion/friend David Hyslop, wondering why we haven't heard a thing about his run since July, when I found this story on the Newsday site. I assume it will be in...
protect our kids!
local color, now in New York I've never been drawn to demonstrations with a "battle of the bands" scenario, but sometimes the people who need help need help on the scene, because the really bad guys will be there...
be gentle with Ashcroft and Cheney this week
I wrote late last night about Ashcroft's marketing visit to New York next week, and I titled the post, "talk to Ashcroft Tuesday." While I was at it, I might also have mentioned that although he has declined to...
talk to Ashcroft Tuesday
untitled You are not busy this Tuesday at noon - not until now. This just in, from people who keep their eyes on the Constitution and on those who would destroy it:On Tuesday, September 9, Attorney General Ashcroft will...
commercial ticky-tac, on an inhuman scale
coming soon to a neighborhood near you Why is it ok to open in Chelsea what was condemned in the Village? So-called "big box stores" are coming to Manhattan, and the biggest will be on 23rd Street. Home Depot...
September 5, 2003
September 4, 2003
Saudi flight(s) a thoughtful White House gift
Over 3000 people are killed in one day in a vicious terrorist attack on our own shores, frightening most of the rest of the country absolutely out of their wits, and directing them toward an enthusiasm for domestic and foreign...
follow-up on "good art cheap"
If anyone was thinking of going to the A.R.T. Benefit, and have not stopped by the gallery yet, I'd suggest getting there as soon as you can, that is, any time today. The works are already being sold, but there's...
also somewhat unspeakable
Illustration by David Olére, a Sonderkommando who survived nearly two years at Auschwitz Anybody feel funny about this announcement?The Israeli Embassy in Warsaw said three Israeli jets piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors would fly over the former [Auschwitz...
"rest of the world may be crazy, but it ain't stupid"
It's too delicious. Today there's more from Daily Kos on the embarassment of what passes for the American government. He's done his homework, citing the reaction of several sources around the world to the administration's call this week for other...
September 3, 2003
"Give us your money and blood,
but Halliburton is still in charge." Daily Kos gets it right - as usual. [We should all be reading him regularly.] The entire post:US tells UN to screw off, but give us money and troops first I can't be too...
"I was always a wanna-be lesbian"
Danica Phelps is a new woman. The provocative young artist has found love, and it has re-created her art. Holland Cotter wrote in 2002 that she had "turned accounting into an art form." This week she will be showing...
September 2, 2003
good art cheap
Meighan Gale, untitled, 2002, stitching on silver gelatin print, 8x10, in the A.R.T. Benefit sale September 4 I sent an email announcement a few days ago to parsiminous or impoverished friends and acquaintances with fabulous taste and who I...
"the situation" trumps all
Kalandia crossing "I have been thinking a lot about the separation, the general ignorance between average Palestinians and Israelis, and while the gap is indeed large, the ignorance is a choice that functions as an excuse to do less....
Steve Quester and Blue Stockings
Steve, who returned last week from a summer in Palestine, will be speaking on Wednesday at 7 o'clock in Bluestockings Bookstore in the East Village. It sounds like he will be with other activists from Jews Against the Occupation (JAtO),...
